I agree with you. It isnt only birth control pills that are being held under scrutiny, it is also viagra, cialis, levitra, etc. There is a chain store in the DFW area that has been in and out of the MSM lately due to these issues.
So the government should be able to force drug stores to sell certain products? That doesn't exactly fit with our free enterprise system. But really, the main issue at hand is RU-486, that is what is driving this legislation. Birth control and viagra are not the issue, at least in the mind of the man who is sponsoring the bill.
Thanks. This is a bad precedent, allowing people to plead religious excuses not to do their job. Can I sue my employer when he asks me to work on the sabbath? It should be pretty clear that noone is being forced to sell prescriptions here. They can move to a different job or business but the money is too important to them. I guess if the pharmacist is a small place where the owner is making the decision I don't care, but that's not the case, usually. As for the other posts that seem to indicate it's a pharmacist's job to determine what the sexual lives of his clients are like and how he can regulate them, LOL! Noone is going to admit they are using viagra to try and artificially create babies for gay folk, if this ever happened at all. And it is sexually responsible to not have more children than you can pay for. That is part of responsibility. I am against abortion but the academic argument about when an egg implants is going too far. Are people going to start jailing women for having periods because it COULD HAVE BEEN A BABY? Ha.